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                #1. Look, I think if you talk down to a kid or aim specifically at a kid, most kids aren't gonna like it, really, because most kids can feel when you are being patronizing.
                Brad Bird
							 
            
                    
		    
                #2. I think my journalism is for readers who are smart and know that most people are lying to them, or being patronizing.
                David Weigel
							 
            
            
		    
                #3. Fairy tales, before they were sanitized, were very dark, and kids love that. 'Coraline' by Neil Gaiman feels like Beckett for kids. I think there's plenty of room for that. And I think there's a danger of being too patronizing to children, having things too sanitized.
                Edward Carey
							 
            
            
		    
                #4. I felt very bad and could not sleep until 1am. Maybe he could coach me defence.
                Tamim Iqbal
							 
            
                    
		    
                #5. I also get fed up with the fact that casting agents and directors have this impression of me as being frail and petite. I find it very patronizing. I'm quite beefy and strong. I was a gymnast in school and I have lots of muscles.
                Helena Bonham Carter
							 
            
            
		    
                #6. The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
                Isaac Asimov
							 
            
            
		    
                #7. I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.
                Dirk Nowitzki
							 
            
            
		    
                #8. To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.
                Henry Rollins
							 
            
                    
		    
                #9. My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
                Erica Jong
							 
            
            
		    
            
            
		    
                #11. Being a journalist got me to meet with children who had witnessed all their beliefs, all their faith in the world collapse.
                Roselyne Bosch
							 
            
            
		    
                #12. Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
                FKA Twigs
							 
            
            
		    
                #13. Some people misconstrue our band just to be a commercial venture.
                Chris Martin
							 
            
            
		    
            
                    
		    
                #15. The assumption that being gay or black necessarily harms the self-worth of all who fit this category has a patronizing dimension, because it neglects consideration of the agency that persons exercise in respect of imposed identity.
                Michael Kenny
							 
            
            
		    
                #16. Today, the constituency of fear has become much broader, far less selective
                Wole Soyinka
							 
            
            
		    
                #17. I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.
                Gary Vaynerchuk
							 
            
            
		    
                #18. Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...
                Edith Wharton
							 
            
            
		    
                #19. I was moving from worried to scared, and I could see terrified waving at me from just around the next bend in the road.
                Gini Koch
							 
            
            
		    
                #20. When people see the budget, they're going to say, 'Oh, my God, I wanted a tax cut, but I didn't know what you were going to do to health care and to Medicare and national defense.'
                John Breaux
							 
            
            
		    
                #21. Sites of battle held on to a madness, as if the blood that had soaked into the soil remembered pain and terror and held locked within it the echoes of screams and death cries.
                Steven Erikson
							 
            
            
		    
                #22. I like being a patron of things, I like patronizing things. And if it's not going to be people, I'll patronize a festival.
                Terry Gilliam
							 
            
            
		 
		
			        
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